Putting up the Christmas Tree
and checking out the well-illuminated and overrun-with-kids "Santa's Playland"!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Hannah from across the street goes under the ... hippopotamus?
I asked Hannah to pose, as my efforts at catching them at play were not fast enough for their dashing around
Tasha, the Ice Queen, checks out Lara's outfit from Grandma
Baby on bear rug, minus the bear rug. Also, clothed. OK. So it's not a classic baby-on-bear-rug shot.
Wrapped in plastic! Plastic netting, that is.
Setting 'er up
Kathi strings the lights
Ella and her tub o' toys
The Christmas tree lights reflecting on the fireplace screen
Tree with lights
Stocking stuffer
Licketly split the tree was dressed with ornaments of varied hue
A little elf
Inspection
Aesthetic touches
Clown cars going round and round
Does this driver have a license?
Reindeer!
Lara climbed all the way the fence, but was wary of reaching out to pet the reindeer
Quite extravagent and delightful light displays all over the park
If you look real hard, and believe, you can spot a blurry Lara hanging onto the fence at the right, pulling back as the deer moved forward
Reindeer mit Lara (Art Shot(tm)). The shadow to the right is Lara, looking into penned area where the reindeer lay
The traditional U.S. flag in Christmas lights; also, "God Bless The USA"
The choo-choo train cars (pulled by a tractor through the woods for two minutes) that we waited at least a half hour to board ...
Marianne Mueller, mrm@sonic.net
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 15:43:38 PST 2006